Voice Lessons near Santa Monica

Voice Lessons near Santa Monica

All levels

We work with total beginners to the most advanced students.

All Ages

We work with total beginners to the most advanced students.

All Styles

We offer lessons in Classical, Jazz, Pop, Blues, R&B.

At Angeles Academy of Music, it’s our goal to provide the best quality private voice lessons near you. Central to Los Angeles in Westwood Village, we are easily accessible from Santa monica, Brentwood, Beverly Hills, Centruy City, and Culver City. Voice lessons are open to all ages and levels, and for children ages four and up. We also specialize in lessons for adults. For almost ten years, we have helped thousands on thier musical journey. Our talented, friendly, and qualified team has experiece from teaching kids to learn their favorite disney song, all the way to advanced vocalists preparing for their broadway audition. We can help you learn any style or genre of music, and lay the foundation for proper vocal technique in the process. Learning to sing has enormous benefits both for kids and adults, including improved self esteem and confidence. You will learn good breath control, how to shape vowells, proper posture, consonants and how to perform confidently. More advanced vocalists may study how to encorporate dramatic elements such as acting. Our instructors are trained to not only get you the skill and technique you need, but also how to keep in fun and engaging by working on the music YOU love.

Voice Lessons for Kids

Vocal training may start around four or five. Our focus is to help them sing the songs they love in a healthy range that will not strain their voice, and gently integrate funtamentals of good vocal technique.

Voice Lessons for Adults

Adult voice lessons tend to focus more on mastery of the technique and phisiology. We work with many beginning adult vocal students who find lessons open their confidence.

Why Study Voice with us?

Great Instructors “a great school is just an amazing group of teachers.”

In our hiring process, we filter hundreds of prospective instructors in search of the qualities that make a great instructor. There are four qualities we are looking for. The first is a strong, positive personality. This is just essential to keeping you excited about music, and engaged during lessons. Secondly, we look for the instructor’s ability to create intelligent, achievable goals customized to your needs. Great teachers will help you learn the techniques and skill you need, but do it though the music you love. Thirdly, a great instructor is intuitive. They have the sensitivity to know if what they are teaching you is being understood, and if their delivery is effective, (Keeping the energy and excitement high). Finally, we look for outstanding educational credentials. Our instructors possess degrees from some of the finest music schools in the world, places like Juilliard, USC, Berkley School of Music, Indiana University, and Royal Conservatory of London.

University Trained

Background Checked

Warm Personalities

Years of Experience

Recitals and Mastercalsses

Students can interact with pears by practicipating regular recitals and masterclasses, consistency you can’t get from a small private voice studio. We have regular spring and fall recitals that all our students are welcome to participate in. These are age and level appropriate, and often include certificates, metal, and trophies for achievement.

Recitals we Offer

Beginning- Intermediate Level Recitals

Intermediate -Advanced Recital

Honors Recitals

Owned and Operated by Emmy Award winning Composer

In choosing a music school, its very imporant to select one that is musician owned. Angeles Academy of Music is owned by Emmy award winning composer Nathan Pangrazio. He is known for collaborating with some of the biggest directors and producers in Hollywood, including Steve Tisch, Mitchell Block and Vanessa Block. His accoplishments in the music field, combined with years of experience as a performer, composer and educator come together to make him uniquely qualified to operate a high end music school. Nathan has crafted Angeles Academy from his extensive experience in music education, with a mission to make sure each student gets the tools and the inspiration they need to meet their individual potential in music.

Open 7 Days a week for busy families

We know families in the Los Angeles area are busy, and thats why we are open 7 days a week, providing lessons from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 12 p.m. – 9 p.m. on Sundays.

Additionally, we offer month to month lessons with no long term contracts or semester minimums.

Contact us today to reserve your space! Lessons are first come first serve

Taking a proper breath is one of the fundamentals of good singing. Simply put, it’s a breath that expands not just the upper lungs, but the lower lungs as well. In lessons there is on controlling the lower diaphragm which enables this expansion. A great breath also involves being upright posture, with an open chest, and a relaxed jaw. The throat should expand as well, and lips and tongue should take on the position of the intended vowell. A good singer’s breath will resemble the kind of expansion that a yawn will naturally produce.

Once taking in the breath is learned, students will next focus on exhaling. A great vocal technique involves controlling the speed and direction of the air. This is why great singers are able to sustain long notes for such an impressive amount of time. One great exercise is to lie on the floor and place a book on your stomach. Inhale deeply. As you begin to exhale, make a hissing sound and try to keep the book from dropping for as long as possible.

Just like any athlete, the muscles required for singing need to be gently warmed up.

It is best to start in the most comfortable part of the vocal range, and expand as it becomes easier. The “A” vowel is commonly used for warm ups because it required a relatively open and relaxed position for the jaw and lips. Start by singing three notes up and then down again. the goal is to connect the notes with the breath. The sound should be a smooth legato, (connected sound), and the feeling in the body should be open posture lungs and throat, without closing down as you move from one note to the next. As the range of the exercises increases, there is an emphasis on how shaping vowels in brighter and darker ways, and speeding up and slowing down airflow, can help to navigate the more challenging heights of the vocal range.

Warm ups are very valuable because they help the prospective singer focus simply on sound production, without getting caught up in the details of lyrics and musical interpretation.

Sight reading is an important skill for any aspiring musician. To begin, students are taught about treble and bass clefs, (different ranges), and to identify notes that are on the lines, and notes that are in the spaces between the lines. To remember the notes on the lines, students learn phrases such as, “every good boy does fine” The first letter of each word are the notes on the lines of the treble clef from bottom to top. E, G, B, D, F. The notes that are in the spaces between the lines spell the word “Face”, F, A, C, E. As students become faster at identifying these notes based on these simple phrases, the phrases wear off and they simply recognize the note for what it is. In addition to identifying notes, sight reading includes understanding rhythm. Rhythm is differentiated in notation by notes filled in or empty, and with different stems and beams. These indicate different speeds of notes. Even the most accomplished musicians can often improve their sight reading. More advanced training involves pushing speed and looking ahead, and through creating progressive goals.

Music theory teaches us how recognize and identify patterns across all music. It is fascinating because it starts to bring together a clearer understanding, and patterns once complex become simple. Imagine a complicated math equation that actually has a very simple answer.

Learning theory involves a mixture of ear training, (the ability to identify harmonies and melodies), as well as identifying and labeling these patterns on paper. Harmony is seen in notation vertically, and is often what might be described as the background in which a melody is set. Harmony consists of chords, (3 or more notes heard simultaneously), and can be Major, Minor, Diminished, and several others. These differences in sound are often described emotionally; happy, sad, or scary. The beginning of music theory training might involve identifying the difference between a couple of these chords. Ultimately, advanced theory students are able to write out the music they hear, and to analyze harmonies and melodies in musical scores. A full grasp on the structure of music can take years to develop.

Frequently Asked Questions about Voice Lessons

Why choose Voice?

Some of the best music ever written has been written for the human voice. From ancient chants, to Mozart’s operas, great Musicals to Jazz and your favorite pop artist. The human voice might have the greatest emotional potential of any other instrument because of the double impact of music plus the power of words. Voice students often find studying voice a very rewarding process, often with a variety of unexpected benefits, such as improved self confidence, body awareness, the thereputic effects of learning to breath properly, and the thrill of singing with others or with insrumental ensembles.

When Should my Child Start Voice Lessons?

Voice instruction for kids has been a tradition for centuries. While reptoire needs to be carefully selected by the instructor to avoid strain, gentle training with appropriate music is safe. We often begin a mixture of basic piano, rythm and singing as early as age four.

How long does it take to learn to sing?

Results are often noticable in a very months. The variables include the students interest level, and the consistency of practice. Also, how closely the student follows the suggestions for practice. Many students find that recording themselves, listening to great singers as reference, and frequently participating in performance opportunites help to speed up progress. Students that set clear goals for themseleves often find improved progress.

Is it too late to learn to sing?

This is a question we frequently get from adult students. While you might not become the next Pavarotti, you might be suprised to see how far you can go. Many of our adult students are middle aged, and even older. There is no physiological reason an older adult cannot learn to sing, or improve his or her voice. In fact, adults sometimes are better able to understand helpful analogies and abstract ideas that are useful to training.

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I am pretty convinced Pangrazio has the best piano lessons in LA. My 3 children have been taking piano at the school with Jesica for the last 1 1/2 years. Jesica is a brilliant and kind teacher. Her patiences is truly extraordinary. My children started at ages 3, 5, 6. It is quite astonishing how proficient they are on the piano with only one, half hour, lesson a week.

My daughter takes violin from Isabel and piano with Jesica. We could not be more happy. She is 10 years old and a total beginner on piano and takes violin at her elementary school but in a group setting. Honestly, they are all so flexible and easy to work with. Nathan is kind and easy to deal with. If you want excellent teachers plus a flexible schedule and a fair price, I highly recommend them. I’m so happy with the results and my daughter loves her teachers.

I highly recommend Angeles Academy of Music for ALL types of singers! I had previously taken singing lessons in middle school but now I’m more serious about my voice and learning the skills to correctly use it for singing! Pangrazio has great instructors who are patient and very well trained to help you grow and develop!

My husband and I are both very pleased to have discovered Angeles Academy of Music! Nathanael Pangrazio has been teaching our 6-year-old twin daughters piano and voice lessons for nearly a year now. He is so patient with them, (works splendidly with children), was able to channel their individual talents and apply a curriculum to each of their requirements. We wouldn’t consider seeking elsewhere.

I am pretty convinced Pangrazio has the best piano lessons in LA. My 3 children have been taking piano at the school with Jesica for the last 1 1/2 years. Jesica is a brilliant and kind teacher. Her patiences is truly extraordinary. My children started at ages 3, 5, 6. It is quite astonishing how proficient they are on the piano with only one, half hour, lesson a week.

My daughter takes violin from Isabel and piano with Jesica. We could not be more happy. She is 10 years old and a total beginner on piano and takes violin at her elementary school but in a group setting. Honestly, they are all so flexible and easy to work with. Nathan is kind and easy to deal with. If you want excellent teachers plus a flexible schedule and a fair price, I highly recommend them. I’m so happy with the results and my daughter loves her teachers.